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MS 1913

The Brian J. Egloff Collection Wreck Bay Papers
1979-1981

ACCESS AND SCOPE NOTE

Access
Open access - A1/B5.

Scope

Various typescript documents in good condition, some handwritten. Papers, correspondence, field notes, printed material, chronology and maps. 1 box (7cm), 8 folders.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Brian J. Egloff

Brian Egloff was an anthropological research officer for the South Coast with the NSW Department of National Parks and Wildlife. In 1979, whilst still with the department, he was commissioned by AIAS at the request of the Wreck Bay community to compile a social history of the community. In 1981 Aboriginal Studies Press published his work as: Wreck Bay: an Aboriginal fishing community, a revised edition of which was published in 1990.

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WRECK BAY PAPERS, 1979-1981

Item:

  1. Correspondence - Wreck Bay community correspondence, including:
    Notes on "Aboriginal Burial Grounds", Wreck Bay, by J. Hick.
    Clarification of report on Archaeological sites in the proposed Jervis Bay Nature Reserve by M. E. Sullivan (1979).
    Correspondence leading up to Dr. Egloff 's appointment.
     
  2. Correspondence - Dr. Egloff's appointment (1979 to 1980), including:
    Copies of letters between AIAS and Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community.
    Copies of letters between Wreck Bay and the Minister.
    Copies of working drafts on the history of Wreck Bay, (1) Preliminary outline, (2) "A perspective of the current land (and sea) use conflict at Wreck Bay which emphasises the social history of the Aboriginal community" and corrected draft of the latter.
    Budgets and requests for equipment.
    Correspondence between Dr. Egloff and the AIAS during research of the report.
     
  3. Correspondence - publication of Report, including:
    Hand written corrected draft of report and copy of report complete with copied maps and photographs.
    Correspondence between the AIAS and Dr. Egloff.
    Comments on report by W.A Bayley.
    Letters between Dr. Egloff and Wreck Bay community.
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  1. Research Background Material - Oral history of Wreck Bay by Ann Nugent, including:
    Correspondence with Ann Nugent.
    Copies of letters to government ministers.
     
  2. Research Background Material - Wreck Bay No. 1, including:
    Volume 3 and 4 of School and Community News.
    Hand written notes.
    Copies of Managers Reports on Jervis Bay Aboriginal Station 1959- 1964.
    Copy of Aboriginal Land Rights claim - Summercloud Bay, 1975.
    Copies of newspaper articles.
    Copy of "Jervis Bay Native Reserve - Draft Development and Management Plan" by Ann Nugent.
    Copy of "Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community an Approach to Planning" by Margaret Valadian.
     
  3. Research Background Material - Wreck Bay No. 2, including:
    Correspondence with Ann Nugent.
    Hand written research notes.
    Copy of Background paper by Dr. Egloff on Wreck Bay.
    Copy of Wreck Bay Aboriginal Housing Company Limited leases ordinance 1977.
    Copy of "Aboriginal Sites of Bherwerre Peninsula" by M. E. Sullivan.
    Correspondence with various relatives of Wreck Bay Aboriginals and government departments.
    Copy of entries into Mr Harpers Journal (Mission papers, District Despatch 49).
    Pamphlets.
    Newspaper articles on the Wreck Bay community.
    Copy of several pages of The New South Wales Advocate 1904, 1913.
     
  4. Research Background Material - Wreck Bay No. 3, including:
    Correspondence.
    Newspaper cuttings.
    Maps.
     
  5. Research Background Material - Maps
    Location map in earlier style.
    Wreck Bay plus site etc. excludes airstrip/ roads/ housing.
    Wreck Bay showing original gazetted boundaries, road, airstrip etc.
    Wreck Bay largest scale showing locations of houses etc. in modern settlement.
    Four quarter page maps showing changing boundaries.
    • Aboriginal Reserve Boundary.
    • Boundary of area excluded from Nature Reserve.
    • Boundary proposed by Wreck Bay Housing Co.
    • Boundary of lease offer.
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Guide updated by J. Phillips December 1999.